Regnum Bohemiae eique Annexae Provinciae ut Ducatus Silesiae Marchionatus Moraviae et Lusatiae Vulgo Die Erb-Länderen.

Title

Regnum Bohemiae eique Annexae Provinciae ut Ducatus Silesiae Marchionatus Moraviae et Lusatiae Vulgo Die Erb-Länderen.

Description

Map shows Bohemia, Silesia, Maehren, Lausitz and Teschen. Decorative and detailed map with the cities of Olomouc, Hradisch, Breslau, Żagań (German Sagan), Swidnica (German Schweidnitz). Furthermore a magnificent title cartouche with the coats of arms of Bohemia, Silesia, Moravia and Lusatia.

ca. 1650

Artist

Visscher (1618-1679)

Nicolaes Visscher I (1618 -1679) Amsterdam was a Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher. He belonged to the Dutch art dealer, engraver and publisher dynasty founded by his father Claes Janszoon Visscher. After his father's death in 1652, he took over his father's art publishing house and initially continued publishing the atlases and maps that his father had begun. He then began publishing works under his own name. Together with his son Nicolaes Visscher II (1649-1702), he engraved a large number of printing plates, further replenishing the publisher's stock. The atlases "Atlas Contractus", "Atlas Minor" and "Germania Inferior" contain about 170 plates. After N. Visscher's death, some of Visscher's copper plates passed to Petrus Schenk II (1693-1775), who used them for numerous reprints.

Historical Description

In the historical sense, Eastern Europe refers to Ukraine, the European part of Russia, Belarus and the Republic of Moldova. Occasionally, the Caucasian countries of Georgia, Armenia and, conditionally, Azerbaijan are also seen as part of Eastern Europe. By Christian Giordano and other scholars, one of the six historical regions of Europe is called "Eastern Europe." The Eastern European countries are historically and culturally largely influenced by the Orthodox Church (Islamic Azerbaijan excepted) and were - in contrast to the Ottoman-dominated Balkans - under the rule of the Russian Empire. Like the Balkan countries, the countries of Eastern Europe were for a long time backward agricultural states (cf.: Intermediate Europe) and had no or only a limited share in the social developments of the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment of the Western world.